Yaya DaCosta

"THE STREETS of American cities are haunted by the ghosts of bookstores and record stores which have been destroyed by the greatest thugs in the history of the culture industry. Writers hover between a decent poverty and an indecent one; they are expected to render the fruits of their labors for little and even for nothing, and all the miracles of electronic dissemination somehow do not suffice for compensation...," wrote the intellectual Leon Wieseltier in the Times Book section last weekend.

But no matter how much we old fogies and young ones, too, complain -- time marches on.

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